Chapter 12
Chapter Twelve
Caleb
I’m breaking all my rules for her.
I’m bringing her into my bed, into my room. Into my life. But I realize then that this is what has to happen. I realize then that this isn’t just a game that we are playing on an app, it isn’t just another Dom/sub matchup, a chance to play a few scenes before we part.
It’s not just me training another sub and showing her how BDSM works.
I can never give her to another Dom.
I can never give her to anybody.
She’s mine.
With her, I found something different inside myself.
I want to take care of her. I want to take a chance with her.
I have never believed that anyone would ever stay with me.
It’s hard for me to believe that she might.
That there’s something in me that she’ll think is good enough for her to want to keep me.
But it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because I would take every risk for her. That’s how it’s been, from the moment I first saw her. When I found out that her father was going to lose the ranch and I bought up all those acres to mitigate it.
From the beginning, I’ve been doing it for her.
At first because I saw something mirrored in her that I saw in myself.
But now because I see her. In all her lovely, perfect state.
This woman with the wonderful capacity to give, who needs someone who won’t take advantage of that.
Who will give to her. Who will lighten her load.
Honor her power by testing his own against her.
I have everything. Money, power, and it’s a cliché, but the one thing I haven’t been able to buy for myself is love. But now there’s her. There’s her, and as I feel her against my chest and hold her in bed, I know that I’ll do whatever I have to in order to keep her.